GENESIS
CHAPTER 13
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
OBSERVATION
STAGE
The observation
stage is to teach an individual to focus on the text at hand which, by and
large, has all the information necessary to understand what it is saying
without going on unnecessary tangents elsewhere.
Remember that
something elsewhere may be true, but in the text at hand it may not be in
view.
I)
[Gen 13:1-4]:
A)
ABRAM RETURNS NORTHWARD INTO CANAAN WANDERING FROM PLACE TO PLACE
INSTEAD OF TRUSTING THE LORD AND SETTLING DOWN IN ONE PLACE. HE DELAYS
CALLING UPON THE LORD IN SPITE OF THE LORD'S SUPERNATURAL RESCUE OF HIM
IN EGYPT, UNTIL HE ARRIVES BACK AT THE ALTAR HE HAD BUILT AT BETHEL
****
EXCERPT FROM GENESIS CHAPTER 12 ****
ABRAM
CONTINUES TO MOVE THROUGH THE LAND OF CANAAN FROM SHECHEM TO A MOUNTAIN
EAST OF BETHEL. THE VILLAGE OF ALI IS ON THE EAST. THIS IS WHERE HE
BUILT ANOTHER ALTAR AND THEN HE CALLED ON THE NAME OF THE LORD
*** END OF EXCERPT
***
II)
[Gen 13:5-13]:
A)
THERE WAS STRIFE BETWEEN THE HERDSMEN OF ABRAM AND LOT DUE TO LIMITED
SPACE SINCE THE CANAANITES AND PERIZZITES DWELT IN THE LAND, (V. 13:7B),
AND SINCE THE HERDS OF ABRAM AND LOT WERE SO GREAT. ABRAM OFFERED TO
RECONCILE WITH LOT BY SEPARATING FROM HIM. HE GIVES LOT FIRST CHOICE OF
WHERE TO RESETTLE, BUT DOES NOT PROTECT AND HONOR THE PROMISE OF THE
LORD TO GIVE HIM THE LAND OF CANAAN
B)
DUE TO CONFLICT OVER SPACE FOR THEIR HERDS, ABRAM GAVE LOT FIRST CHOICE
OF WHERE TO RESETTLE - JEOPARDIZING THE LORD'S PROMISE TO GIVE ABRAM THE
PROMISED LAND. THE PROMISES REMAINED INTACT BECAUSE LOT CHOSE SODOM
OUTSIDE OF CANAAN WHERE THE MEN WERE EXCEEDINGLY WICKED AND SINFUL
AGAINST THE LORD AND SOON TO BE DESTROYED BY THE LORD AS A RESULT
III)
[Gen 13:14-18]:
A)
ABRAM SEPARATED FROM LOT FULFILLING THE LORD'S COMMAND TO SEPARATE
HIMSELF FROM HIS RELATIVES. THE LORD THEN REITERATED HIS PROMISE TO
ABRAM AND HIS SEED, AN INDIVIDUAL PHYSICAL DESCENDANT, TO POSSESS THE
PROMISED LAND FOREVER IMPLYING JUSTIFICATION UNTO ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH
THIS INDIVIDUAL 'SEED'. THEN HE COMMANDED ABRAM TO WALK AND VIEW THE
LAND HE WILL POSSESS. ABRAM THEN BUILT ANOTHER ALTAR TO THE LORD IN
HEBRON BY THE GREAT TREES OF MAMRE
1)
[Compare Gen 12:6 NKJV]:
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